The Good, The Bad & The Ugly Paramedic

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Priorities are changing in prehospital care, with many paramedics now questioning career commitment for the future. Those drawn towards more mobile, emergent, autonomous roles found their place in paramedicine. increase in the number of registered paramedics, over the preceding year, to almost 20,0002.

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The Good, The Bad & The Ugly Paramedic

JANUARY 31, 2021

Writing for prehospital care publications and books keeps me constantly thinking about my own paramedic practice, with purpose, although I hadn’t realised it until now. Almost eight months behind schedule, The Good, The Bad & The Ugly Paramedic Student Handbook is finally finished (to be published on 28th February).

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The Good, The Bad & The Ugly Paramedic

JULY 1, 2020

As paramedics, whilst we often take great offence at being called ambulance drivers, the question is, when it’s our turn to drive, what exactly is it that we are providing? In Australia, for example, AHPRA’s Paramedicine Board describes paramedics as "practitioners" throughout documentation regarding registration.

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The Good, The Bad & The Ugly Paramedic

JULY 1, 2020

As one of those "soft skills" integral to the paramedic's toolkit, it is encouraging to see how widely it appears in research, training, leadership and culture. In the current climate, paramedics are feeling both the warmth of widespread empathy, for the role we are playing in pandemia, and the contrasting cold of its absence.

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